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4-30-70 Top Of The Morning A Sugar Grove woman became the fifth person to die on Warren County roads this year. Sandy King died early Monday morning from injuries sustained an accident Sunday night near Sugar Grove. Page 1 A Pittsburgh woman died Saturday as the result of severe burns sustained in a fire at Saybrook on Feb. 13. Mrs.

Lucille Rushnick was visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Plydesko. Page 1. PEmSYLVAyiA Pennsylvania's money crisis remains unsolved as the Democrats and Republicans remain far apart on solutions; at the same time, the House and Senate have passed different versions of proposed legislation to hike license fees.

Pages. Football, ice hockey and basketball may give way to necking as the most popular sport at the Hill School at Pottstown. Page 5. A gang of young blacks startled a meeting of Philadelphia educators with a terrifying and authentic-looking gang invasion. Page 5 THESATIOy Two men kidnap two sisters, ages 3 and 2, after tying up their aunt with parachute cord, police say.

Page 1. Secretary of Labor George P. Shultz meets with leaders and says afterward that President Nixon is ready to move quickly if unemployment rises sharply due to anti-inflation policies. Page 1. French President Georges Pompidou comes to this country for a state visit while representatives of Jewish groups in downtown Washington sell Down-with-Pompidou buttons and circulate petitions protesting Paris policy in the Mideast.

Page 1. Kentucky teachers their classrooms in an attempt to raise pay scales beyond increases granted by the legislature. But 73 of 193 school districts are reported in operation Page 5. A young congressman works as a nameless aide in nursing homes for the aged, and what he learns leads him to demand a nationwide congressional inquiry into this flourishing industry Page 10. THE WORLD terrorists ambush a busload of American tourists, killing one and wounding two.

The Swiss government sharply restricts travel, and Israel calls for international action to halt air piracy and terrorism. Page 1. drop 1.500 tors of bombs on the Ho Chi Minh trail in eastern Laos the seventh straight day of heavy attacks on the supply route into Vietnam. Page 1. Soviet plans to divert rivers from the arctic could trigger world climate changes, such as increasing deserts of central Asia and making Europe warmer, a British e.xpert says.

Page 1. DEATHS Sandy King. 22. R. D.

3. Sugar Grove HAT'S INSIDE Soviet Plans Could Trigger World Climate Changes Birthdays .............................12 Classified Vital Statistic LONDON (AP) Soviet plans to divert southward three giant Siberian rivers now into the arctic could trigger worldwide climate changes, a Britisfa scientist said Mediterranean-type weather could move farther north in Europe while desert areas could grow in central Asia, he contended. It could mean greater deserts in the United States, although this is less likely, said Hubert Lamb, a leading expert Two Children Kidnaped For Gambling Debt BUTLER, (AP) Two small daughters ci an oil hunter were snatched from a playpen Monday by two men who claimed the father owed them a $4,000 gambling debt, Sheriff Leoo Clark reported. He said roadblocks were thrown up throughout southwest Alabama but that several hours after the late morning ing no trace had been found ci the men and the girls, Tina Cain, 3, and Tiffany Cain, 2. are looking at that comes the Choctaw County sheriff said.

FBI, state, and everybody are working od The girls were taken from be- Ike's Son Rejects Suggestion He Run Against Sen. Scott WASHINGTON (AP) John Eisenhower, son oi the late President Dwight Eisenhower and currently U.S. ambassador to Belgium, has rejected the suggestloo of some Pennsylvania Republicans that he run for the Senate against Sen. Hugh Scott. AScott spokesman made public Monday a letter from Eisenhower offering the Senate Republican leader his best wishes for an overwhelming victory in this coming Eisenhower wrote that be got word from the White House oi the efforts Charles C.

Hdt suburban Philadelphia, to promote a challenge to Scott usually is listed among the more Republicans. 00 climate at Britain's Meteorological Office. Work is already reported under way on a 15-year scheme to redirect the waters oi the chora, Ob and Yenisei rivers toward the desert around the and Aral seas. This will deprive the arctic of perhaps half of the fresh water now flowing in. Lamb said in an interview.

will have the effect oi shifting the world's climatic belts farther north. This could mean Mediterranean areas experiencing North African conditions and Mediterranean-type weattier moving further north into Europe, have always feared that with increasingly powerful technology large-scale attempts will be made to modify the climate with results far beyaid what we are able to predict I think it is highly dangerous climatically to meddle with things on such a large scale when we are stlU unable to predict the Lamb said. It is believed the advantages of the scheme to the Russians would be the irrigation of some 85 million acres ci arid land and the drainage of some 150 million acres of swamp. But Lamb said the long-term effects could be disastrous. rivers are portant for maintaining the ice cover in the Arctic he explained.

supply much cf the water that keeps the top layer of the ocean comparatively fresh so that it freezes more easily. If the supply was reduced or cut off there could be large-scale The Caspian, the experts say, has fallen feet in the last 20 years and the Aral Sea is in danger of drying up completely. Another theory for the revival of interest in the massive plan is that Soviet shilling along the northeastern sea route is suffering by increasingly bad ice conditions. the Soviet Uniai's powerful fleet of ice breakers, freight traffic and the fishing industry have been severely handicapped during winter months. The reduction in ice by cut- off the fresh water flow would be a considerable aide to navigation along the freezing ccastline.

WARREN TIMES-MIRROR VOL 4 NO. 286 AND OBSERVER WARREN. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1970 ONE SECTION 14 PAGESI Oc President Pompidou Arrives in U.S.

For 8-Day State Visit PHARMACEUTICAL AUXILIARY ORGANIZED Wives of members of the Warren County Pharmaceutical Assn. have organized an auxiliary and met recently to elect officers and set a program for the year. Social will be planned, but the main purpose of future meetings will be to help members better understand the profession of their husbands that they might function more effectively as an auxiliary. a progressive dinner has been planned for May and a picnic has been scheduled for the summer months. Officers of the auxiliary are, left to right, Mrs.

Charles Mahood. secretary and Mrs. David Hoffman, vice president, both of Warren; Mrs. Frank Stroker, president, Sugar Grove and Mrs. Eugene Leseman, treasurer, Sheffield.

(Photo bv Dorrion) Nixon Ready to Act Quickly To Combat Unemployment Hike Movies ...................................13 Society Television ............................13 Todays Van 12 hind the trailer home of an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Rozzell, who kept them during the day while their father, Cain, was at work.

Cain, an employe cf Seismograph Service cf Tulsa, was working across the Alabama line near Laurel, when the girls were taken. Mrs. Rozzell, his sister, the sheriff two men- both with long hair and one with a goatee entered her trailer on the pretense of using her telephone to report a traffic accident, She said they told her Cain owed a $4,000 gambling debt, but did not elaborate. The men tied up Mrs. Rozell with nylon cord and took the girls from the playpen.

Deputy Chester Rentz said there was an unconfirmed report they drove south on Alabama 17, which could either have taken them to Mobile or, by switching highways, toward the west. The car, a white Chevrolet, bore Texas license tags. Clark said Mrs. Rozzell them to burt the children and they said they They told her call the father in 30 minutes at his office, but they Mrs. Rozzell freed herself in about 20 minutes and notified auttK)rities.

Tina Cain is a blue-eyed blonde with a slim build. She was wearing a beige coat, white sweater, red and white pants and green sneakers. Tiffany has brown eyes and diort, curly brown hair. She was wearing a yellow T-shirt, green and green sneakers. NOANU BEACH (AP) President Nixon is ready to strong if his inflation policies cool the economy too much and cause a major rise in unemployment, Secretary of Labor George P.

Shultz said Monday. But Shultz said it was unlikely that AFL-CIO President George prediction of a jobless rise to 6 per cent of the labor force would materialize. The rate now is 3.9 per cent, or about 3.4 million persons. Shultz met with AFL-CIO leaders attending a conference here and delivered a message from Nixon that the President will move swiftly if necessary to combat any big increase in unemployment. Asked afterward what measures Nixon might take, Shultz mentioned the 75 per cent culljack in planned federal construction and said that limitation be taken just talking off the cf my Shultz told newsmen, emphasizing that Nixon had mentioned no President felt that if it looked like unemployment was going to rise in any major way -and there is no indication that happening-but if that emerged, he is ready to look around and take a of Shultz said.

think there is going tobe any steep rise, any general rise, in unemployment at the Labor secretary said. glad to hear it However we continue to be quite said a for Meany, who went to bed with a head cold after meeting with Shultz. alarmed about any The jobless rate has risen from 3.3 to 3.9 per cent since Nixon took office, Shultz to newsmen after a closed exchange of views with the AFL-CIO executive council, whose members accuse Nixon cf trying to curb the sharpest rise in living costs in 20 years at the expense of American workers and consumers. Shultz also said is very to that union leaders demand big pay raises this year to try to offset living costs. But he said a wage boost like last 15 per cent rise in the construction industry to me to be bad news for the economy, and bad news for the industry as The 35-man labor council has said the Nixon policies of a tight mcttey supply, the high interest rates and federal spending cutbacks are cutting pay and jobs and boosting prices to especially in halting inflation.

The council, in its annual winter meeting, urged easing the money supply and federal re- strictioos on business expansion which they said are causing a profit inflation. WASHINGTON (AP) French President Georges Pompidou arrived in the United States Monday for an eight-day state visit against a background of criticism for Paris policy in the Ntiddle East The arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in nearby Maryland was an unofficial one and Pompidou was to the night at Camp David, President retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, before making his formal entrance into the capital Tuesday. Theflightfrom Parisended in bright but windy weather and there was no fanfare as the French group shifted to helicopters for the short hop to Camp David. Several hours before arrival, young representatives of Jewish organizations were doing a brisk business at Farragut Square in downtown Washingtixi selling lapel buttcms in red, white and blue bearing the words Live France, Down with Oie young man reported selling 500 at 25 cents each. Nearby were placards car- condemnations of the French sale of Mirange fighter jets to Libya, and asserting that the French people support Is- raeL This Jewish discontent, plus the prospect that a sizable frac- ticxi of the House membership will boycott speech at a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday, prompted fresh White House efforts to underscore its plans for a cordial reception for the visiting French leader.

Asked about criticisms of the visit, presidential press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said: have been set to receive President Pompidou in accord witli the friend- shipthat exists between the two We receive him courteously and as a friend Ibelieve that Congress will receive the president courteously." Nixon is going a bit out of his way to emphasize the welcome by going to a state dinner Pom- POMPIDOl Page 2 B52s Drop Tons of Bombs On Ho Chi Minh Trail SAIGON (AP) American B52 Stratofortresses dropped 1,500 tais of bombs on the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos Monday, informed sources said. It was the seventh straight day of heavy bombiiig raids up and down the trail, main supply and infiltration corridor into South Vietnam. The U.S. Command has been reporting oily B52 strikes flown in South Vietnam, but reliable informants said about half the 30,000 tons by American B52s so far this month have been in eastern Laos.

Official reported only one five-bomber mission against enemy depots and staging areas along the coast, a mile below the demilitarized zaie between North and South Vietnam. The Communist-led Pathet Lao demanded Monday that Britain and the Soviet Union, cochairmen of the Geneva conference on Laos, take energetic, efficacious and urgent to put an end to the U.S. bombings in Laos. Vietnam News Agency, in a broadcast monitored in Toky'o, said Phounii Vongvichit, secretary-general of the Central Committee of the Pathet Laotian Patriotic Front, made the demand in an urgent message. The message said that the United States had been bombing the Plain of Jars since Feb.

17. North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces recaptured the plain Saturday. Nixon administration has reached a high degree of barbarity with its premeditated use B52s for intense night bombings with a view to exterminating the local said the message, distributed by the Pathet Lao news agency, KPL. Arab Terrorists Attack Bus, Kill American Woman Tourist Arab terrorists attacked a bus carrying 37 Americans on a tour cf the Holy Land Monday, killing one American woman and wounding two others and an Israeli guide. Injuries Prove Fatal For Sugar Grove Woman Woman Dies from Bums Sustained in Saybrook Fire A Pittsburgh woman, Mrs.

Lucille Rushnick, died Sat. Feb. 21, 1970, as a result of severe bums she sustained Feb. 13 in a house fire at Saybrook. She was staying at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. John Plydesko, Four Mile when the blaze erupted around 8:30 a while she was sleeping. Mrs. Rushnick was alone in the home when Mrs. Plydesko left to take her stepson to the bus Liop.

Mr. Plydesko had been hospitalized with a heart ailment. Mrs. Lucille Rushnick, 4261 Sardus Pittsburgh, died Sat. Feb.

21, 1970 in Warren General Hospital. She was bom Dec. 13, 1911 in Pittsburgh, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Chapits.

She was a member of St. Roman Catholic Church, New Kensington. She is survived by her husband, George C. Rushnick; a son, George T. Rushnick, Plum Borough; a daughter, Mrs.

John (Patricia) Lauffer, Saonburg; two sisters, Mrs. Casmir (Emily) Maszgey, Vandergrift and Mrs. Stella Slocik, Spring Dale; a brother, Carl (Thapitis, Pittsburgh and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m., Feb. 25 at the Robert S.

Rusiewicz Funeral Home, 1400 Fifth Arnold, and at 11 a.m. with a Requiem High Mass at St. Church, New Kensington. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Park, Lower Bourrill. Sandra K.

King, 22, of R.D. 3, Sugar Grove, died at 2 a.m. Monday in WCA Hospital, Jamestown, from injuries sustained in a one car accident at 10:40 p.m. Sunday on the Sugar Grove Busti road, about 100 feet south of the New York State line. She became the fifth person to die on Warren County roads this year.

Chautauqua County Coroner Frederick L. Hitchcock issued a certificate of accidental death from a severe head injury. He reported Mrs. King was admitted to the hospital at 11:45 p.m. Sunday and died at 2 a.m.

Monday. Troopers Ralph B. Pfaff and Montgomery Ward Denies Plans To Relocate in Shopping Plaza A Montgomery executive Monday denied a report circulating locally that the company has any definite plans at this time to locate in a new shopping plaza west of town. William Vincent, senior real estate negotiator for the eastern seaboard, Baltimore, (Md.) offices, said if and when such a development may occur, it is company policy to put it in the form of a formal announcement. While nothing definite has been determined at this time, Vincent said, the company is, of course, always looking to the and there has been some interest shown in land on the west side of town by other developers.

If, however, Montgomery Ward should develop plans for moving into this area, a formal announcement will be made to the news Richard L. DeSimone, W'arren sub-station, reported the King vehicle was traveling south on the Sugar Grove-Busti road and had just crossed the state line into Pennsylvania when for some unknown reason the operator applied the brakes. The auto, the troopers said, went out of control, crashed over an embankment on the east side of the highway, throwing the operator from the vehicle. The left rear wheel came to rest on the head, they said. Sandra (Dobson) King was born in Jamestown, N.Y., May 22, 1947, the only daughter of Harold and Helen Hitchcock Dobson.

She was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Sugar Grove. Mrs. King was employed as a waitress in Sugar Grove. Survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Harold Dobson, R.D. 3, Sugar Grove. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Schoonover Funeral Home, Sugar Grove. The Rev.

Dan S. Bowers, pastor, Presbyterian Church of Sugar Grove, will officiate. Burial will be in the Wesleyan Cemetery, Sugar Grove. Friends may call at the funeral 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.

The attack came shortly after Switzerland issued an order barring virtually all Arab nationals from entering the country and at about the same time Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir was calling (HI naticms throughout the world to help stop Arab attacks on civilian airlines. Forty-seven persons were killed Saturday when a Swissair jetliner bound for Tel Aviv crashed in Switzerland following an in the baggage compartment The same day, an Austrian airliner carrying mail bound for Israel made an emergency landing at Frankfurt after a similar explosicxi. The bus, carrying a group of Americans on a Baptist-sponsored tour of Bible lands, was cm the outskirts of Hebron in Israeli-occupied Jordan when the terrorists struck. One of the wounded Americans Tabea Damico of Ventnor, N.J., recalled: were driv- Heritage Foundation Gets $6,000 Grant From State Council State Senator Richard C. Frame announced yesterday that the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts has approved a $6,000 grant to the Northwest Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation.

The grant will assist the financing of preliminary plans for an outdoor drama and facilities to house it in the Warren area. Feasibility studies for the drama were conducted by the Institute of Outdoor Drama of the University of North Carolina under the sponsorship of the Kinzua Dam Vacation Bureau. ing along out of Hebron about 3:20 when suddenly we were being shot at from all sides. We crawled under the seats for Mrs. Damico was slightly wounded in one leg.

Lucille Draper, of Buffalo, N.Y., suffered slight wounds in both legs. Israeli officials identified the dead woman as Barbara Ertle, 31 Grandville, Mich. They said her husband, a Baptist minister, was among the passengers who escaped injury. Hebron is a center of Arab agitation on the Jordan westbank, seizedbythe Israelis in the June 1967 six-day war. Terrorists ambushed a bus traveling from Beer Sheba to Hebron last year and killed one American passenger.

Arab guerrillas have warned foreigners to stay out of the occupied territories and have advised Christians not to make pilgrimages to Israel because are at In Bern, Swiss President Hans Peter Tschudi told a news conference that his government had decided to issuing visas to visitorsfrom Arab states except for humanitarian trips, such as visits with ailing relatives, and significant Swiss interests are at This category would include diplomatic and important business visits. Tschudi said tourist visas would no longer be given to Arabs except in such as trips by journalists. The government issued a statement investigators had concluded that the crash See Page i.

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